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You play World of Warcraft, or League of Legends, or Runescape, or Tera, or Rift, or what ever, and some guy randomly messages you with "Hey baby, you look hot.", or says something much more sexual.
How often does this happen?

I'd imagine it's too often-- as if any 'often' would be acceptable at all. I'd hate to be enjoying myself, doing my own shit, and some creepy dude just pops up and asks you to go down on him. Just.. no. I couldn't handle it.

The amount of creepy messages I got was simultaneously horrifying and amusing. I feel sorry for girls that game, there are lots of creeps that hide behind anonymity.

I also have a female toon in EVE Online that I used to scam people out of their money. I am a horrible person. People trust female characters more, and "broken microphones" go a long way towards making you appear like you're trying to communicate but failing.

Although I'm not female myself, I do see a lot of people hitting on girls online. I've gamed with a girl for nearly a decade (a decade this september in fact) and I've never seen her enter a chatroom and not have someone hit on her.

It's a pity, they alienate gamers who are often just as good, if not better, than they are - although I'll admit that I know a lot less serious female gamers than serious male gamers. It's very male dominated.

Agreed, unfortunately.
Women are kind of alienated that way. They can't walk outside without someone wanting to do something to them. I'd freak out knowing there were people watching me walk around, thinking things. Bah.

I could talk about the hundreds of male characters I've played in games if you like, but I tend to play whatever has the most strategic value, or failing any particular preference there, whatever amuses me most.

I played only female characters in Euro Gunz, for example, because they were better at the style of fighting that was the only style worth learning in the meta. But, on the other hand, I play nearly all males in EVE Online, because I like to represent myself and getting hit on by creeps all day is just weird.

I do have one female character that has dreadlocks, white eyes and tattoos on EVE Online though. Doesn't get hit on in the same way the ginger scam-toon was (who is now my logistics alt, but yeah). It was just amusing to build a character like that and have people take it seriously. Role-playing was serious business yo.

Tera was mostly because I wasn't taking the game seriously - I played a female ginger fairy called Flowerdust and danced through the woods dispensing giant balls of healing to everyone and anyone. Does that sound like someone playing a game seriously?

After three hours of manically laughing at the fact that this was actually a game style that they encouraged I actually settled down a bit and stopped dancing around quite so much.

Except from during boss fights. You have to dance during boss fights. What else are healer classes supposed to do?

I don't trick them into thinking that. I abuse the fact that girls are seen as more trustworthy to ensure that they are less likely to think I'm lying. I then take every asset I can lay my hands on and run away laughing. That's how you play EVE :3

I used to play a lot of different MMORPGs and would get hit on fairly often.

I probably didn't help myself when I would flirt back. Haha. I have a sense of humor and don't get terribly offended when creepers message me, to be honest. It's easy to ignore them and they don't (usually) interfere with gameplay. Why not have a little fun?

It honestly doesn't affect gameplay. It's extremely easy to ignore. Some women take it personally, and they are free too, but I just never took those things seriously. It was all a game to me, right down to the "creepy men" asking to get into my pants.

I've only ever played with one girl ever, the girlfriend of one of my frequent L4D2 co-op buddies. She never got hit on because we have a dedicated squad of her, her boyfriend, this normally quiet but pretty funny dude, and myself. She was pretty damn good looking though, and her voice was cute, so I can't imagine the kind of shit she had to put up with in servers.

Whenever I'm online and hear a girl join, I usually leave right away. Because of all the guys arguing like omg can I see tits plz, and then the white knights defending her. Or she just asks for attention because she's a girl and play video games

I'm a female streamer (streaming full time on www.twitch.tv/MissPetrai) so by putting myself out there I get a lot of extremely sexual comments in my chat, but I honestly don't think I have ever been confronted with a direct message that makes me uncomfortable.
You get anonymity in games by gender neutral alias', and before I was a streamer the name "Petrai" never alerted anyone. There are a lot of seedy guys, but there's a lot less that will confront you alone.
But I mean, by streaming/posting photos on fb/twitter/instagram, there are of course people that say "hey baby you're hot". But not without me putting these images out there first.

All I have to say, is that I remember in 2011, playing CoD 4 on X360, there was a very nice sounding woman in S&D (don't know if it was a voice changer or what)...when we killed her, we TEBAGGED THAT SHIT REAL GOOD, then we were yelled at for a very long time (by her), and since then, I've yet to see a female gamer. Then again, I mostly only play with my buddies now.